Nyongbella may have been selected to join the cast of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK season seven, but she previously applied for season four – without having ever been in drag.

Speaking to PinkNews and other media ahead of the launch of Drag Race UK season seven on 25 September, the London-based, Cameroonian queen explained that she had only just started experimenting with makeup when she sent off an audition tape back in 2022.

Asked about applying for season seven , she said: “I think it’s my first time pretty much. I saw the [audition] tape that everyone else was doing and I was like, ‘Oh, I could do that too.’”

Pressed on what she meant by season seven “pretty much” being her first Drag Race attempt, Nyongbella confessed that she actually applied for season four, but had never been in drag.

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